Home Depot Issue Delayed At Hearing

July 19, 2000

GLASTONBURY — What was expected to be a contentious public hearing on a proposed Home Depot store on Putnam Boulevard had yet to take place by late Tuesday at town hall.

The town plan and zoning commission placed the retail development project behind several other items on its agenda Tuesday for the meeting that began at 7:30 p.m. By 10:50 p.m. the Home Depot portion of the hearing had not started and a crowd of about 50 residents had dwindled to just a handful.

``I think they did it on purpose,'' said Judy Tierney, a resident. ``How long do they expect people to wait?'' She is one of several residents circulating a petition against the project.

Developer Loren J. Andreo wants to build a 131,795-square-foot store, which would be the chain's largest in the region, on the Glastonbury-East Hartford line.